be.ri.ach denotes a crossbar used to secure doors and gates or to connect the boards of the tabernacle.

The term most often denotes a securing or bounding crossbar associated with doors, gates, and fortified places, including bars that are installed, strengthened, broken, or removed. It also identifies the crosspieces set through and alongside the tabernacle boards.

1. Securing or bounding crossbar · dominant

   In 1 Samuel 23:7, the singular absolute form occurs in the description of a city shut in by doors and a bar; in Judges 16:3, Samson removes the gate doors together with the bar. Plural construct forms occur with gates in Nehemiah 3:3, while Amos 1:5 and Psalm 107:16 describe bars being broken or cut down; Job 38:10 places a bar with doors as a set boundary.

   1 Samuel 23:7Judges 16:3Nehemiah 3:3Amos 1:5Psalm 107:16Job 38:10
2. Crosspiece for tabernacle boards · common

   In Exodus 26:26, plural absolute forms designate five pieces for the boards on one side of the tabernacle. Exodus 26:28 identifies a singular middle piece running through the midst of the boards from end to end, and Exodus 36:33 repeats that construction; Numbers 3:36 lists the construct plural among the tabernacle equipment under Merari's charge.

   Exodus 26:26Exodus 26:28Exodus 36:33Numbers 3:36Exodus 40:18

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB commonly presents the term as “bar” or “bars” in clauses about doors, gates, fortifications, and tabernacle boards. Since the APB is a whole-verse translation, those renderings confirm the clause-level setting rather than fixing every occurrence to a single English token.